Comentario de rlyeh

I have never seen it mined from small thorium vein. The other WoW data collection sites show over 200,000 hits for small thorium vein and not one arcane crystal mined.

Has anyone mined an arcane crystal from a small thorium vein?

Comentario de Maed

No, it only comes from Rich Thorium Veins.

Comentario de issachar

I find a good farming spot to be in Zul'Mashar in North Eastern Plaguelands. Theres 4 Nodes, and 1 that spawns every 2-6 minutes from those Nodes. one near the 3rd hut at the entrance hill. and then 3 further back near the temple.

Comentario de enasima

Just looted one of these off an Adamantite vein in Zangarmarsh

Comentario de Thorny

After obtaining the bindings for Thunderfury, I knew that I would have to get a *lot* of Arcane Crystals. I tried a number of different methods - grinding for cash to buy them, stealthing through Un'goro/Silithus and running around in southern Winterspring (Darkwhisper Gorge). After trying all of those, I came across the following screenshot from a friend :

This screenshot shows the majority of all Arcane Crystal spawns in Eastern Plaguelands. From that map, you can plan a route to go across all of the spawns. I can also verify that the majority of those spawns are correct and accurate. Even when there are a couple of other miners in the zone, if you have an Epic Mount, with a Carrot on a Stick, Gloves with Minor Mount Speed and Boots with Mithril Spurs - you will get to *at least* 2-3 spawns per anti-clockwise route.

It took me a while, but on average, an hour of farming this veins usually yielded at least 1 Arcane Crystal. I think I ended up physically mining around 70 of my 100 required for Thunderfury, and buying the rest. Mining in EPL was and probably still is the best way of obtaining lots of these crystals, and one would suspect that Jewelcrafting will probably need them in TBC.

Hope this helps people =)

Comentario de plum

Yes, it can be mined from small thorium veins. I did it today in Silithus. I don't know what the odds are for it to occur, but it has to be astronomical.

Comentario de joshka

i have never heard of anyone getting arcanite crystals from small thorium veins. it could be a change in the patch, but to my knowledge, these can NOT be obtained from small thorium veins.

Comentario de Vexed99

These can only be obtained from Rich Thorium Veins.Good places to look would be.-Burning Steppes-Eastern Plaugelands.( in the canyons with the oozes ).-Western Plaugelands ( Up in Hearthglen area )- Silithus.- Rarely in Ungoro on Fireplume Ridge

Comentario de jmills

In addition to mining these can come from Yellow Sacks of Gems (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=17965), usually dropped by dragon raid bosses (Onyxia, Emerald Dragons, Nefarian, and also Kazzak)

Comentario de akirabrewer

hard to get i can never mine these out

Comentario de Deja

Start holding on to your arcane crystals! In TBC they can be turned into an important (and expensive) enchanting material. They are also used for some great blacksmithing recipes in expansion.

Comentario de Cataclysma

If you are a rogue you can farm a lot these out of Ooze Covered Rich Thorium Veins located within the 3 hives in Silithus. They are mostly untouched due the fact they deep within tunnels filled with lv 57+ elite bugs. In most cases you will only need to take care of one elite bug in order to mine them.

You will need to be able to solo up to a lv 61 elite bug or have a large amount of blinding powder/flash powder.

Comentario de Aily

Got two of these today in a small thorium vein in silithus, I have no idea if it has something to do with the 2.0 patch, or me just being extremely lucky

Comentario de SeriusJones

Found one first swing of my first vein. Blizz upped the loot rate in 2.0, I think.

- SJ

Comentario de Maed

As of 2.0.1 these can now be mined from Small Thorium Veins, but at a much lesser rate then Rich Thorium Veins.

Comentario de redaxe

I have been mining these in Burning Steppes, Winterspring and Ungoro for some time now.

In my opinion, Burning Steppes gave me the best return on my time provided there aren't too many others there farming. Burning Steppes has the added benefit of a lot of Dark Iron Ore nodes that also pop up. DI Ore sells well on the AH and also has a chance of a Blood of the Mountain dropping.

The key is picking times of the day when there are not many farmers about. Some times (and with a bit of luck) I could get 2-4 crystals per hour when there was no competition for the nodes.

Comentario de ZzoOozZ

Darkwhisper Gorge in Winterspring is THE place to mine for these, yes it is easier for a class that can shed aggro easily (hunter, rogue) but it is doable by all classes, just CC the target and keep moving into the next area, they will only chase you so far

also, when there, make sure to stop by and see Vi'el, the <Exotic Reagent Merchant>

he has up to 5 gromsblood (at 10s each) and 2 felcloth (at 80s each) as rare spawns in his inventory

Comentario de Farmbuyer

I hate these crystals.

I've been mining RTV's for months, and have gotten exactly ONE of them to drop.

Comentario de Jakobud

I know some tricks a gold-farmer taught me that allows me to mine about 5 or 6 Arcane Crystals per hour in Silithus easily.

Comentario de Zandir

Anyone know if these are used by jewelcrafters at all?

Comentario de Zhanghia

These do, in fact, drop off of Rich Adamantite Veins. Not sure if it drops off of any other but I can verify the RAV.

Comentario de GarroteWire

Just got one from a Smal Thorium in Hinterlands.

Comentario de Macen

I was leveling up my mining today and I got 2 from small thorium veins in Un'goro. All in about 1-2 hours. So, yeah.

Comentario de Pegster

I noticed that noone has mentioned Azshara yet.There are quite a few RTV spawn points in Azshara, and atleats back when I was farming these a year and some months ago there were far fewer farmers/general population there than in the other areas they are to be found. Some of them are in Timbermaw camps, so if you're friendly with them you can take the chests there too without having to fighting :)

Comentario de Shivacode

Sadly, these are almost worthless now. Meanwhile, thorium bars are up to ridiculous prices.

Comentario de cybele7

So far every one has talked about where you can get them but not where to use them.. of the possible uses for the arcane crystal one is to get 3 arcane dust. My question is how exactly does that happen since you can't disenchant them?

Comentario de littlidabbi

They can be turned into 3 Arcane Dusts now.

Comentario de Kryzack

I am stating for the record as of now that Arcane crystals CAN BE FOUND in SMALL THORIUM VEINS!! it's a small chance but I just found one so it can be done.

Comentario de Krynoraxian

An interesting note: Due to the increased drop rate of arcane crystals in all thorium veins. For a very short time(275-280) Arcanite Keys can be a good substitute for Imperial Plate bracers for getting some skill up.

It should be noted Arcanite keys are of yellow difficulty when you train them at 275, but for those 5 blacksmithing levels its well worth the risk over the orange skill Imperial Plate bracers to save yourself some money/time.

Comentario de hypoharry

Got it from a small thorium vein last night in winterpsring

Comentario de nassy

These are no longer worth anything as much as they use to be worth. Sometimes these wont even sell at the Auction House.

Comentario de Druidus

At my server (darkmoon faire) they go for 15g each. They are used for Transmute: Arcanite Bar.

Comentario de nikkaplz001

These are of a very low drop rate and sell in AH for 15- 30 gold on my server i am in the process of farming the 80 more that i currently need for thunderfury

Comentario de Carsomyr

Decided to just scour the places I need had Thorium, and it took me 3 1/2 hours to get 6 crystals. First after 1 hour.

Comentario de Vadox

As of patch 3.0.8, these are worthless, you are lucky if you can get over 1-2 gold for them, at least this is how it's on my server.

Comentario de Krazycarn

I have probably mined about 25 thorium deposits (total of rich+small) and I have not seen this drop. The sad thing is that now in BC and WotLK the 300-375 recipes still need this for arcanite (espicially engineering) and these crystals are really rare.EDIT: I have now mined about 45 total deposits and I have seen this drop twice.

Comentario de direwolfz

The reason for high prices in AH, is that it cannot be adquired via Prospecting, like other same-level gems.

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Comentario de Penily

I've gotten a lot of Arcane Crystals from Small Thorium Nodes. About 4 in the span of a day. It was out in Sithilus .

Comentario de Thalassicus

On Alliance-side Kirin Tor, these now sell for 1g, or about the same as two bronze bars. Oh, how times have changed!

Comentario de Goldenmoon

If you are farming these for some reason, I would highly advise going to Un'goro Crater. I went here to farm Thorium Ore and in an hour and a half i had about 217 Thorium Ore as well as 6 arcane crystals. Hope you have as much luck as I did =)

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Comentario de ulletuss

So I got my bindings for Thunderfury and realised I need tons & tons of these crystals.

The absolutely best place to farm these in my opinion is simply silithus. Yesterday I went farming for about 30-40 minutes and earned about 1k gold (from the thorium and dense stones and random gems) + @#$%loads of arcane crystals.

Seriously, it was ridiculous amount of thorium veins, especially in The Crystal Vale, northwest silithus. Just follow the mountain sides of silithus like a circle, don't bother go into the hives, it will just slow down the farming process. And make sure to fly around in Crystal vale when you get there because there is atleast 4+ nodes there.

There is like zero players in Silithus nowadays so this should work on every server, mine is Highly populated but I still couldn't see someone else there :P

I hope this helps!

Comentario de timbazi

@ ulletuss (8) 25 days ago (Patch 4.0.6)

I was mining thorium there for about 30 min and got only 4 arcane crystals :/

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Comentario de Torzule

Arcane Crystals are RANDOM drops from mining thorium. There is no "best" place to farm them.

Comentario de Berrenger

Prior to the Sundering I would have said Un'Goro Crater was the best place for mining these. However, as it is now possible to fly in old Azeroth Silithus is, in my opinion, the better place to farm these.

There seem to be more Rich Thorium Veins than in Un'Goro Crater and Silithus is large enough that you always have a full selection of nodes to mine.

In four runs around the edge of the zone I was able to mine 20 Arcane Crystals (5, 5, 4, 6). Each run took about 15 mins with a Death Knight on a 280% speed mount.

Comentario de Phaust

A single hour of farming through Winterspring (with what seemed to be no competition) gave me:

I have farmed in Un'Goro, Silithis, and Winterspring and so far Winterspring seems to have the best drop rate considering convenience as well as competition. On my server, Un'Goro is a popular zone for Thorium farmers, and the issue with Silithis is that a lot of the node are deep in the hives. I also noticed that in Winterspring the Crystals seemed to drop equally if not slightly more off of Small Thorium veins as opposed to Rich (which are prevalent in the zone as well).

I'd definitely recommend Winterspring if you need a high volume of Arcane Crystals (for Thunderfury, for example).

Happy farming.

Comentario de Norlando

Did they change the drop rate on these? I remember a few months ago, I'd go around the swamp of sorrows 3 or 4 times and end up with a full stack. Now, I go around 3 or 4 times and end up with 1 or 2.

After doing the xmute on my xmute spec alch I ended with 15 Arcanite Bars(Only 1 x2 proc)Arcanite Bars - 50g x 15=750gGems 6g x 225 = 1350g (takes a few days but they sell within a few days)Vendored Dense Stones = 20gTotal gold made = 2120g in one hour

Note: Prices may vary per server and they largely do. Also 2120g in one hour isnt accounting for time spent prospecting/posting to AH/ transmuting etc or the amount of gold taken for AH cut.Also note that your luck may vary in acquiring arcane crystals as its mostly RNG, but this should give you the idea for the potential of doing this.

Comentario de wizardcho

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Comentario de Huskey

currently farming this in silithus, flying mount, can't go 2 feet without finding a Thorium node, best place to farm, total ores so far: 84 2x Arcane crystal, time spent : 7min

Comentario de Mercylicious

Silithus is much better than Un' Goro in my opinion, there's maybe twice as many nodes, and Arcane Crystals have dropped like crazy there, got 3/4 nodes once. If you're looking to farm, it's not quick, but Silithus eases the burden.

Comentario de Mercylicious

The drop rate on these (Based on my luck/misfortune) seems to be lower than the other gems mined from the Thorium Veins, as I have observed mining an Azerothian Diamond, Large Opal, and Star Ruby from a single vein, where as I hardly see Arcane Crystal. Hopefully someone found this helpful. Maybe I just had weird luck, I don't know.

Comentario de Netspook

I need 100 of these, total, for legendary weapon quest.

Been mining in Winterspring for roughly 2 hours. Almost 1400 thorium ores, and only 11 crystals so far. Will try Silithus now, as some of you suggested, to see it it's better there.

Anachronos is a fairly low pop server, and these are rarely at the AH (ally side). Tried using /trade to get some - soon someone said "crystals now on ah", the price was ridiculous: 85g each... Meh, the greed knows no limits, appearently.

Edit:

Ok, Silithus is definitively better. It took "only" 4.5 hours to get the remaining 89 crystals. What makes it better, is that by following the outer edge, you'll find a constant supply of nodes, none very far from the last. A round takes maybe 10 mins, and the nodes ahead of you will always respawn between each round.

Compared to Winterspring, you avoid obstacles likes trees, since the nodes are in open terrain. I do not recommend entering hives to farm, it will increase the time spent between each node.

Comentario de TimeTrap

This is one of the only gems that can't be obtained through prospecting.

Comentario de Starnibbe

Can a Jewelcrafters Prospect these from Thorium Ores?

Comentario de Sykoo

1 pass around Silithus I got 4 Arcane Crystals. 3 from Small and 1 from Rich. At this rate I should have the 50 in no time at all

Comentario de athena42

IF YOU ARE FARMING FOR THUNDERFURY Make sure you get 80 of these then find a transmute master. Generally out of 20 you will end up with 4-6 more of these items using the transmute master. Sometimes significantly more sometimes not. But 80 should be just fine to reach your 100 amount.

Farming- All previously mentioned farming spots will work. Silithus is arguably the best but if you have another agenda for clearing zones(loremaster)(grinding rep for The Exalted/Diplomat/Ambassador titles) The other zones will work just fine.

For Cata(and you can expect MoP) farming of arcante bars, Silithus farming without going into the bug holes will be your best bet. Take the opportunity to use the thoruim ore for prospecting items and sell them for profit on the AH. Mix this up with selling the ore/bars as well to see where your realm finds the best profit margin for those items...I expect it will be a mix of the two.

If you get incredibly bored with this hop over to Ungoro for a couple circuits and then head back to silithus farming.

Items to help with this process

Faster flying +speed boosts/trinketsA good computer! If you fly extremely fast but have slow loading sometimes you will pass the item before it has the opportunity to spawn on your screen.Big bags/huge mining bags.Argent gruntling/Moll-E (for getting rid of items quickly)Guild pet vendors (for selling items you dont care to keep/mail but dont just want to destroy) - I dont know if Blizz fixed this but if you keep your Pet up and it disappears just go into AQ real quick and it should reappear regardless of cooldown time.Addons...gathering addons are extremely useful in letting you know how much progress you have made. Many will also keep track of what others in your guild have done as well, and create a more accurate circuit for you to fly/ride.Last but not least...a druid. Instantly mounting provides an incredible advantage to time and may not seem like a big deal for 5 minutes of farming but for hours of farming you can complete 10 times more.

Comentario de Aurakka

So after months of farming I finally got my second binding and started to farm these up over the course of a day or so. Doing circles of Silithus along the mountain line is by far the fastest way to get these.

Comentario de Sizy

Not sure where the 13% and 9% drop rate comes from, but I have farmed through Winterspring and Un'goro crater and out of a mix of 388 small and rich veins I have 10 crystals.

Comentario de xaan1

These are quite the pita to get now , 1 lap of Silithus staying only on the outside edge and going in no bug holes , 1st lap 5 arcane crystals , 2nd lap 4 arcane crystals , don't pass the small thorium veins by cause have found as many crystals in there as the rich deposited ones , plus untold ores and gems and such, well over 1500 thorium ore and counting.

tried Un'goro and had worst luck there so went back to Silithus , also have seen many rares since no one seems to come here anymore , really cool looking dude called Setis standing at the entrance to AQ

gonna be quite the grind to get to 100 crystals ! , good luck !

Comentario de Railguy

Best place to farm is Swamp of Sorrows. Follow the edge around with ore tracking on. When you reach the cave go in and collect what is in there. Usually there are 4-6 nodes up. Then fly directly across to the west of Bogpaddle and start following the edge to the west. Go around the edge of misty valley and continue. Alliance should have no problem, Horde, you will be flying over The Harborage, which is a Draenei town. Note: You don't go near bogpaddle, so if you are hated with Steamwheedle Cartel like I am, you shouldn't have a problem. You will also pick up truesilver on the way, which is a plus. Good luck!

Comentario de George14

The Arcane Crystal icon has been changed to the silver coin icon.

Comentario de Dimenz

just bought a crap load of Mena de torio then read the first coment saying you cant them through prospecting...

Comentario de WaywardHero

Given the sheer number required in the creation of either Thunderfury or Sulfuras, you'll likely need a wee bit more than a single trip. This is partly why i prefer farming in Silithus as opposed to other zones. With a hearth set to Dalaran, (or one of the Shrines, which offer a free port to Dalaran) the Caverns of Time are a free portal away. By taking the Caverns of Time portal, the flight to Silithus takes players over the spawn points of both the Ravasaur Matriarch's Nest as well as some Kalimdor rares like Gruff, who have a chance to drop the Kalimdor-only Jade armor.

None of this extra information will get you any extra crystals, but hopefully it can break up the monotony of your gathering sessions. Happy trails!

Comentario de pbplyr38

If you're looking for a good place to farm these, Silithus is great. Just make a circle around the outer edge of the zone (near the mountains) and you'll find tons of Thorium deposits. The drop rate isn't very high, but I managed to farm about 3k ore while farming 150 crystals for Sulfuras and Thunderfury. I also managed to farm nearly 300 truesilver ore in the process.

Comentario de Resented

With the advent of cross-realm zones, farming these will once again become tedious and (even more) horribly time-consuming.

Comentario de iforwardslash

Tired of competing with allies and enemies in Silithus, Un'goro, and Winterspring? Blasted Lands too much of a battleground? Go to Swamp of Sorrows. My experience is that of having the entire zone to myself. Yes, there are far fewer nodes than Silithus and etc., but when you're in a race with 3 or more how many nodes are you even able to tap?

EDIT: only really a decent spot if you're the only person there : \ which i was lucky enough a few times but not on a regular basis

Comentario de jamesoliff

My advise to anyone who needs arcanite bars since 5.0.4 hit is to just buy them from the AH. The drop rate is very low, it cannot be prospected and you can do dailies for the gold needed in half the time it'll take you to farm up 50 of them (assuming your doing this for the sulfurion hammer). Also, get a transmutation master to convert them, you might get extra so don't buy all you need in one go. Any overflow you get can be the tip, they sell for about 100g each on my server (the crystals about 50g)

Comentario de Khanor

A word of advice to those who need these for Thunderfury:

It's often overlooked that after obtaining the second binding, you still need to get the quest and THEN kill Ragnaros. Frequently, people just complete their run, meaning Rag is dead when you get the quest to kill him. If that's the case with you, it may be prudent to hold off on buying these (or at least, the higher priced ones) and instead farm them until the raid resets and you can kill Ragnaros, then buy whatever you don't have. Cheaper overall that way, and you don't lose any extra time.

Comentario de longslowgoodbye

From a lowpopulated server competing with miningfarmers from other highpopulated servers is no fun, the crystals arent ending up on MY auction house... /angry

Comentario de TheZoog

For alliance, port to Uldum, fly over the mountains to Ungoro and do the ring. If there is too much competition, fly over the mountains to Silithus and again, do the perimeter ring. If there is competition there, my preferred zone is WINTERSPRING, because there is twice as many nodes as the other zones and almost zero competition. Do the perimeter in WS, but also zig-zag into the interior because there are just as many nodes in the middle of the zone as on the exterior. You'll get the idea. I assume you are mining Arcane Crystal for Thunderfury. If so, then by all means check the AH in Everlook, where I bought 6 Arcane Crystal for 5g. With a drop-rate of around 10%, you can get 10 crystals in about an hour of mining, so definitely spam trade for both arcanite bar and arcane crystal, and wth, if someone will sell ya enchanted elementium bar for $1k per, GO FOR EET.

Comentario de punkisdead

Be careful when you are farming this! I spent 5 hours PURE HAND mining and get banned by bliz:

***NOTICE OF LICENSE TERMINATION***

Account: WOW1Offense: Use of Bots or Third-Party Automation Software

Always take 15 mins break!

Comentario de Malificus

After farming 582 Thorium ore in Winterspring I got 28 Arcane Crystals. This is about 1 per 20 stack of ore. Nodes are close and heavily concentrated in Winterspring... didn't take long at all.

Comentario de Aussiegnome8

I found I had better luck getting Arcane Crystals in Winterspring rather than Silithus for some reason. I have no suitable explanation, just that I only had Arcane crystals drop while mining in Winterspring, whereas in Silithus I would get the whole range of gems:Huge Emerald, Blue Sapphire, Azerothian Diamond, Large Opal, Star Ruby, Black Vitriol and of course Arcane Crystals.

Weird, to be honest.

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Comentario de Delleidity

I've been selling these at 200g+/each and they always sell. If I list 20, one person will buy them all. They're never in AH on my server. I could probably charge more. But, yeah, 18g is far less than the AH sell price...

Comentario de Rahaf

My experience, I have been farming for almost 2hr and 20 mins and got only 9 ! guess this is random rare and if someone else is farming the area too then your waiting to get 1 is 30 mins and above. However I have notice that only after I got like 500 ores in my bag they began to show up. Don't know if others has experienced the same.

Comentario de pod32

I've had the most luck in Un'Goro Crater. After 35 miinutes of farming, 159 Thorium Ore, 5 Mithril Ore, 3 Truesilver Ore, 2 Black Vitrol, 4 Azerothian Diamonds, 1 Blue Sapphire, 1 Huge Emerald, and 6 Arcane Crystals. I didn't keep exact numbers in Winterspring, but I spent about 1.5 hours farming there and did not have a single Arcane Crystal drop. In both locations, I only came across one other person farming, but that's not to say there weren't more. It seems that luck has a big part in this dropping, so don't get frustrated if ya haven't had one drop in a while. It could be in the next node you mine. Good luck and happy farming!

Comentario de Munee

I did some digging in Cuna del Invierno for 30 minutes after seeing Acann's report a few months before further down this thread. In that time, I scores 5 Cristal Arcanos....Not quite the luck acquired by Acann, but still felt worth the trip since it took no time to get there using Desgarrador dimensional: Vista Eterna. Shame these aren't able to be prospected....Blizzard sure seems to have a knack for taking the most sought after items in the game and making sure they remain the most sought after items in the game....lol

Comentario de weekenthe9

Just confirmed these do drop along with thorium nuggets (from small thorium vein, when your mining skill is insufficient)

The drop rate seems to be well adjusted. Overall, you would have approximately the same ore-to-crystal ratio. Since mining nuggets is so much slower, you would only get around 3 arcane crystals per hour of labor. Nonetheless it's a good way to level up mining if you need the arcane crystals, and arguably the best if your mining toon isn't 90 yet (so you can't fly in Pandaria to mine ghost iron nuggets)

let me just say this for those of you might find it helping with there progress. it wont matter where you go for thorium veins, there will always be someone there farming too. also it depends if your lucky or not when it comes to arcane crystal, you might get 15+ in your 1 hour farm or you might get 1-10 in that time depends whether your lucky or not.

P.S. i recommend Winterspring if your farming arcane crystal from thorium veins. i recommend this place becuase it has the most veins than any other place, so the chances of you mining a vein is higher than somewhere else. but you might get lucky and get no one else farming in another place.

Anyway i just thought i should mention this, thought it might be helpful.

Good Luck with your farming.

Comentario de Becmar

I have tried out some other location to mine Cristal Arcano, yet Silithus is definitely the best location to farm Cristal Arcano. Due to Cross Realm, I was disturbed by two other players that also were farming the ores.

Comentario de mickiwow

Today spent time farming for Arcane Crystal in Winterspring and Silithus. Results below.

Where to get Cristal Arcano? Obviously from the AH. Second from Thorium nodes. They cannot be prospected. Lastly in BWL from Saco de gemas amarillo, but that does not supply nearly enough gems.

For mining there are 3x possible areas. Un-Gore cratar, Winterspring and Silithus. My experience so far is that I get 3-5 crystals for a full round, in either area. You can also refer to Mining for Ores, Gems and Stones. MoP UPDATED. Even though it lists only Silithus. You can use realm transfer for more nodes. During my times I was hardly competing with other miners.

If you have time and found this information helpful please take notes during your next farming sessions. Take note how long you farmed, server hoped and what your returns were. My impression is that they will be far lower than in previous expansions. Please leave a comment with the numbers.

Comentario de BurneRambo

From 2 circles around each Wintergrasp and Silithus i have acquired a small data for you guys to interpret.

I would suggest using Silithus as your farming zone for arcanite crystal for the simple reasons that no one goes there, the map is more Manageable and mines are easier to spot.

Comentario de Tantrevalles

OK, folks. Here's the skinny:

Mining the crystals is going to take time. There is no shortcut. But now that I have mined up the last of any such crystals I hope to see again in my WoW lifetime, I shall tell you my secret. I've done somewhere in-between 60-80 hours farming this route over the years, and on my recent jag - 20-21 hours between last Wed-through-Fri - I mined up 210 crystals.

On my particular route they come up at an average rate (and I do mean average rate) of 10 per hour. Some hours, 13. Other hours, 6 or 7. Depends on who's questing. As an added Special Happy Fun Time Bonus, this route takes you directly past the spawn points of 6 separate rares.

GET THEE TO THE SWAMP OF SORROWS. Follow my instructions completely.

Behold Bogpaddle! Here is your natural stopping place at the end of each run. Here you will give yourself 15 or 20 seconds to sell trash to a vendor, but mostly to give nodes a chance to spawn again. From experience, I can tell you that there is such a thing as going too fast, and if you rush through, you increase the amount of times you have to backpedal on the route as things spawn after you've passed. A few seconds of efficiency gets you more nodes each run, which cuts down on your farming time.

Look on your map, specifically at the lower, right-hand corner, where there are some buildings and the mountain range meets the sea. Do not fly straight there as an arrow would.

Instead, flying low to the ground, take the coastal route. You have my permission to bypass the coast of the bay wherein lies the temple. You take this route for two reason, both rares. On the first stretch of coast is some large, spastic emu-looking thing. On the second stretch of coast is a rare murloc. You'll see him the most.

Now you are at the beginning of your route. Follow the mountain range closely.

ALWAYS GO INSIDE THE CAVE. Always. The only times there were not been at least 5 or 6 nodes were on those rare occasions someone with mining got there a few seconds before I did.You cannot trust your mini map on the fly by. It is a quirk of the program that, at least in this cave, the game will not paint nodes to the game world or your mini map until you're pretty much within spitting distance.

Assuming you have no competition, note: There is sometimes a node in the entrance. From the entrance there are three "fingers," one to your left, one more or less in the middle, and one on the right. Go down the left finger first. You may have to run more than halfway down it before the node gets painted in. Sometimes the middle finger has a node. The right finger always has at least one, usually two. Go down the right finger. The stretch of path that leads up to the boss platform will usually have two, sometimes 3 or 4 nodes. The boss platform sometimes has 1. The hallway to the left of the boss usually has one, sometimes two. Again, you sometimes have to go down that hallway before the game will paint in the node that's there.

Now leave the cave and resume the mountain route.

Follow the entire mountain line. There are two places where you'll be crossing a road. Pause at each road for a couple of seconds. Nodes sometimes take a moment to appear in these spots. I have no idea why this is.

Once you've reached the roads, that's when you have the chance of seeing more rares, if you feel like taking your eyes off the mini map for a sec. I usually look around while I'm mining something up. There's a dinosaur, a serpent, the dragonkin in the first cave, and some wasp in one of the swamp-lakes I've only seen once, ever, since 2012. DO follow the countours that both lead to caves. Otherwise you'll miss multiple nodes, which also sometimes spawn in the caves.

And now you're at Bogpaddle. Rinse, repeat.

Remember that every Thorium node has a chance to give you a crystal. Also remember that you have to mine every node, especially the Truesilver nodes. Think of every node as a cork in the bottle that's preventing the node you need from spawning. The way the game spawns nodes, if you cherry pick only the big veins, all you end up doing is increasing the time you spend mining by about 90 gazillion percent.

There you go.

EDIT: Just when I though I was done, it pulled me back in. Had to go back to get mats for an alt. For anyone wanting better numbers: each circuit takes about 8 minutes and you'll come across nodes that count up to the low-20's. Number of crystals per circuit:

Mevrouwke, I don't know what your concern is here. Yes, on the week I wrote this I did one long-ass jag. Prior to that I did lots and lots of smaller ones when leveling professions. I don't play the AH so I have no need to farm like a bot on a regular basis. Not sure why you needed the scare quotes. Weird.

Comentario de Macmagotty

As of 6.2.3, and now that crossrealm has made every zone a hive of activity, there is IMHO only one zone for farming Mena de torio and thus Cristal Arcano: Pantano de las Penas. Swamp of Sorrows is so far off the beaten path and so inconveniently located that it (usually) has a low population even with crossrealm, YMMV.

While Cuna del Invierno, Cráter de Un'Goro and Silithus remain the best known zones with a high number of thorium ore nodes, they are made the less desirable because everyone and his brother goes to farm Thorium Ore there. Gone are the halcyon days of easy farming on low population realms. Crossrealm has delivered an almighty kick to the soft parts of that enterprise.

Comentario de Indormamoo

I must be the unluckiest person in the universe because this didn't drop off the bag for me.

Comentario de sdfjerryp

Adding my own experience.

After finally getting both bindings, I decided to go ahead and get enough crystals for both Thunderfury and the Sulfuron Hammer at the same time. I already had two Arcanite Bars left over from... something, so not wanting to put my trust and hopes into transmute procs, I went for 148 crystals.

Based on the majority of comments here, I chose Sillithus as my farming zone. I did two farming sessions over two days. As far as I could tell, there wasn't anyone else farming the nodes while I was.

I didn't keep track of how many times I circled the zone, but I do know I was averaging about 20 crystals per hour.

There have been a number of other miners present, both alliance and horde, traveling around the zone in both directions. Even if you witness another toon mining a node, GO MINE IT TOO! Most of the time, you'll get ore+ I guess since many realms have merged and we now have "cross realm" in zones with the pre-release patch for Legion, a node can be mined by multiple toons (how many I don't know) in a ~5 second (exact timing I don't know) window. If you miss it, I have had nodes dis-apperate while attempting to mine them, or finish mining only to have it state there's nothing there. I have stood there while another mined a node, then started right as they mounted and got ore+, no matter if the toon was same/different realm, or same/different faction.

If you're going to mine specifically for the arcane crystals, or any other gems for that matter, you're best to use a Draenei miner as they are "gem toons". I spent the past two days mining for them with my Night Elf miner and it took almost 1000 thorium to get ~30 crystals, so you'll go twice as fast, get twice as many using the Draenei vice some other race.

Now I just have to get the right hand piece to finish crafting my legendary Thunderfury sword.

Comentario de xScarlife

Hello everyone, I have made a really nice guide on how to obtain Arcane Crystals. Click Here!

I show you the 3 best mining locations to obtain the Arcane Crystals.

You can get Arcane Crystals by mining the Thorium Ore. There are 3 spots where you can farm for those crystals. It's also recommended to have a mining skill that is at 200+ before you start doing that farm.

The first spot is in Winterspring. What you wanna do is fly around clockwise and when you see a Thorium Ore, mine it to obtain the Arcane Crystals.

The second spot is in Un'Goro Crater. The reason I like Un'Goro is because of the layout of zone. It's actually one big loop around the map which makes it very nice to farm there. But please note that you might face some competition.

The third spot is in Silithus. Fly clockwise for one hour if you want a decent amount of Arcane Crystals.